Without any trolling intent: The only thing detaching the 3DS from the vita is the difference in sales. Both are dedicated handheld consoles, one just sells way better.

I think the price is mostly what the issue was. When the Vita was announced at $249.99, the same price the 3DS was, everyone was praising the portable, but a few months before the Vita was released Nintendo dropped the 3DS down to $169.99 and now no one wants it.

Most people will buy something because it's cheap over quality. How many people do you guys know who point out that there's a cheap 42"+HDTV and you happen to look at it and you see that it's an 60hz LCD with a less than reputable brand. The same thing with desktop PCs sold at Walmart. Anyone remember when Walmart was big on selling those really cheap emachines computers. That brand was a joke, but they sold extremely well.

I own both the Vita and the 3DS, and sure I'm a Playstation fanboy, but the quality of games released and published in the west by Sony's first party is in higher in both quantity and quality when compared to Nintendo's first party. Nintendo is getting more third party support, but most of the third party support it's getting is shovelware.

So first off, Sony should definitely lower the price of the Vita. Second. Secretly create their own "third party shovelware companies" Then have those companies' sole purchase to develop as good of a quality game as they can, with major time and budget constraints. Have them ripoff games like Nintedogs, Brain Training, etc. Which many shovelware developers have ripped off. Higher ups of these companies can keep secret to employees that Sony is involved, so these employees just think they're working for an entry level shovelware company. I think if it got out that Sony did do something like this, it'd hurt their reputation, but it's not a bad idea at all.

I bought the 3DS because it has the games I want to play on a handheld the Vita doesn't thats the difference.

Wrong, Vita and 3DS's capabilities are different, different interface, different demographic target. What multiplat games have you seen between these two consoles? Dare I say none? and even if there was one, the experience would be vastly different from each other.

Seriously? Different interface? Are you going to tell me Xbox360 and PS3 are detached because the Xbox360 controller uses analog triggers while the DS3 does not? And of course there are multiplatform games, dem football games for example.

Seriously, you don't see the difference in interfaces? Dual screen vs 1 screen, back and front touch screen.. dual analog sticks vs one?

Is the experience on the football the game the same on both plat? Are you seriously torn which version to get? :/

Vita is already been pricecutted, it is 199 and 239 euros respectively for each model, plus retailers add a free game and memcard....they are basically pulling everything they have on their sleeve to sell, and still deosnt work very well.....they did something similar with the WiiU, bundling it with NSMBU for only 10$ more

No, I'm not torn since football games do belong on a home console, not on a handheld :P

Where did you get your info about the 3DS, though? It HAS an analog stick (well, not exactly a stick, still serves the same function though) and can be expanded to two analog sticks.

But if you want to see them completely detached, that's also fine. It even allows me to give a good reason why the sales are so low: The target demographic is too narrow (teens with the need for a portable PS3 - I guess...?) and additionally misunderstood. No one would want to be seen with a handheld in public, phones are much more desired.  

Sony doesnt have obscene ammounts of money.

Also, its their fault in the first place for messing with capcom's plans.

They need to lose the arrogance. The PS3 and the Vita are doing wonders for that. A real eye-opener.

It is but I don't think Sony takes into account currency exchange. Example when the Vita launched it was $299 and 299 euros even though the 299 euros is obviously more when converted into dollars. A lot of companies do this. It's so effed up but it happens.